The Mechanism of Triplet Energy Transfer from the Special Pair to the Carotenoid in Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 103, Issue 41, 1999, Pages 8786-8789

  De Winter, Alex ^a   Boxer, Steven G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001178662     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp992259d     Document Type: Article

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